Re: Language Identification?

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:23:02PM -0800, Apollo Hogan wrote:
> > > > > Dzje idzjesh?
> > > > > "Where are you going?"
> >
> > It is also neither Bulgarian nor Ukranian.
> > I don't think it is Russian: "where are you going?" should be something
> > like 'kuda idjosh?' for Russian, nothing like what's given.
>
> Well, I can imagine a Russian 'lect using где (gdje) instead
> of куда (kuda) in this construct, but I can't imagine hearing
> идёш (id'joS) and writing it "idzjesh" - unless the transcriber
> happens to know how that sound is written in Cyrillic. The vowel
> is too clearly not an e.
I agree.  But the the palatization seem very different that Russian.  And all
the words are different enough that if it is a dialect of Russian, it should
count as its own language.

For example:
        'spadats' instead of (u?)-padjot
        'ta' instead of 'na'
        'vidlika' instead of 'vilka'
        'idzjesh' instead of 'idjosh'
        'idz' instead of 'idti'
etc.

It doesn't look like Slovak or Slovenian or Polish.

I would guess Belorussian, but I'm not sure.

--Apollo